Tim Olsen 🇺🇸

The Grain-Free Trucker | Sharing thoughts, ideas, and resources for conscious and intentional growth. Making Sense of the Nonsense.

[Tim Olsen 🇺🇸 @Tim_Olsen]

Interested in starting over at 60 in OTR trucking?

Maybe writing as stream-of-conscious thinking, or self-therapy?

Or, how about habits and subconscious mindset for self-growth?

Over the next 30+ days, I'll be writing every day about these topics.

Follow along on Typeshare: https://t.co/F5B4ngHmry

[Tim Olsen 🇺🇸 @Tim_Olsen]

If you break a bad habit you are better off.
If you replace that bad habit with a good habit you are growing.
No matter what habit you work on—good or bad—being intentional will yield success.

[Tim Olsen 🇺🇸 @Tim_Olsen]

@Nicolascole77 Accountability means nothing without personal responsibility:

• Self-awareness
• Vulnerability
• Courage to grow
• Hacking self-identity
• If stuck — humble yourself... and begin!

No one owes it to you... but you owe it to yourself.

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@MarioNawfal Oil experts are everywhere... 👀

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@keithellison I wonder why they are always Somali neighbors? Never US citizens from Somalia. Curious.

[Tim Olsen 🇺🇸 @Tim_Olsen]

Building a consistent writing habit can be a bitch, especially if you are undisciplined, like me.

But, hacking through those weeds will, in itself, help create discipline, define consistency, and reveal the actual things you should be working on.

Writing helps me think.
Writing gives me time to slow down and listen to myself.
Writing allows me to identify my true beliefs.
Writing gets me to inventory my character.
Writing is the master of relating self-identity, when honestly practiced.

I think, therefore I write.

[Tim Olsen 🇺🇸 @Tim_Olsen]

Writing does not usually come easy for me. I have mechanical issues, and cognitive ones, too.

And, yet, I am able to sit and tap away at times, and literally be dumbfounded at what is revealed on the screen.

Stick with it.

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@MrAndyNgo

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@keithellison Fucking schmuck!

[Tim Olsen 🇺🇸 @Tim_Olsen]

Standing in my own kitchen staring into the fridge.

Half-awake. No idea what I was looking for.

Then it hit me — I was acting exactly like the passengers I drive around all day.

Mindless. On autopilot.

Done with that. #TheHabitsDriver

https://t.co/rYppl1mwLQ

[Tim Olsen 🇺🇸 @Tim_Olsen]

I'm not a guru. I'm a bus driver tired of running on autopilot.

Launching The Habits Driver — small anchoring habits for people done just surviving.

https://t.co/n1p23AoF5w

[Tim Olsen 🇺🇸 @Tim_Olsen]

Why I'm Done Being a Passenger in My Own Life — Launching The Habits Driver

Bad habits aren't a character flaw.

They're a system failure. You drift into them on autopilot — and you don't notice until you're already in the ditch.

New newsletter. Same guy. Different road.

https://t.co/bS0D0qATg9

#Habits #Survival

[Tim Olsen 🇺🇸 @Tim_Olsen]

Surviving is not thriving...

Surviving is existing. Just barely.

I got tired of it.

https://t.co/fASqogvYuI

[Tim Olsen 🇺🇸 @Tim_Olsen]

Writing practice for overcomplicators, like me...

[Dickie Bush @dickiebush]

Another simple tip to writing consistently:

Write anywhere and everywhere.

• A busy bar
• Riding in an Uber
• Waiting in line for coffee

Turn writing into something you do in any moment.

And not just something you do behind your desk at 8 AM.

[Tim Olsen 🇺🇸 @Tim_Olsen]

I drive a 40-foot bus for a living.

Turns out I was a passenger in my own life.

Done with that. Taking the wheel.

https://t.co/n1p23AoF5w

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Thinker thunkers be like...

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Habits are like a good foot massage...

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

2002 Dilbert Classics Week

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@MayorFrey LoL... inviting ALL the gangsters, now, eh?

[Tim Olsen 🇺🇸 @Tim_Olsen]

Why I'm Done Being a Passenger in My Own Life — launching The Habits Driver newsletter.

I drive a 40-foot bus for a living.

Turns out I was a passenger in my own life.

Done with that. Taking the wheel.

https://t.co/n1p23AoF5w